How long would it take a hopper car operated in seasonal climates like upper Midwest to accumulate weathering like on the attached ERES hopper.  Modeling the 2002-2005 time frame, I am afraid I am overdoing it.  Also, I am fully rusting the roofs of outside braced 50 foot boxcars.  Is this too much.   RR Picture Archives is not much help, most photo's are a much late era.

It's another week . . . post 'em if you got 'em.

Just a heads up with the current events worldwide there is a rush to gobble up rubbing alcohol.  If your modeling supply is running low and plan on doing some ballast work or stripping some cars you may want to build up your stash

Now back to your regular threads..........

Even if I live now in Québec I'm Belgian coming from one of the smallest country in the world.

Belgiun is  well know trough the whole world for the quality of his engineering.

We have enginered a lot of big metalic construction in the whole world like bridge, structural structures and we were the first European country with a train line in continental Europe (except England), this was already in 1835 between Brussels and Malines, two town separated by 30 km.